How did being indispensable to a community differ from being a slave? Chapter 13

When introducing his children, he proudly notes that his older son has already mastered the brickmaker's trade; and when telling of his wife's death, his praise centers on her unselfish work for Tuskegee. The book's message is unwavering and clear: industrial education and hard work among blacks is the way to create harmonious race relations and progress for his race. Clearly learning a trade or simply education destroys the very idea of slavery.